Public Affairs Supervisor

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Lead with Purpose: Join Us as a Public Affairs Supervisor

Are you a strategic communicator with a passion for internal storytelling and visual engagement? Do you thrive in a leadership role where you can guide a dynamic team, shape communication strategies, and support a mission-driven organization? If so, we invite you to bring your expertise to our Public Affairs team.

As our Public Affairs Supervisor, you’ll play a pivotal role in overseeing internal and visual communications that connect employees to our mission, values, and strategic direction. You’ll support the Public Affairs Manager in driving department operations, managing personnel and budgets, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.

This role is ideal for a proactive leader who excels at both big-picture planning and day-to-day execution. You’ll help develop and implement communication campaigns, provide expert counsel to leadership, and ensure our internal voice is clear, consistent, and impactful.

Key Responsibilities:

• Internal Communication Leadership: Oversee the planning, development, and delivery of internal communication strategies, including employee news, leadership messaging, and intranet content.
• Visual Communication Oversight: Guide the creation of visual materials such as presentations, video scripts, and digital content that support external campaigns, internal campaigns and organizational initiatives.
• Strategic & Operational Support: Partner with the Public Affairs leadership to support strategic planning, manage departmental operations, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Team Leadership & Development: Provide clear direction, coaching, and performance feedback to team members. Foster a culture of collaboration, growth, and accountability.
• Program & Budget Management: Contribute to budget planning and maintain cost controls. Ensure programs and policies are executed effectively and aligned with core values.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with leaders across the organization to identify communication needs, close performance gaps, and support agency excellence.
• Content Strategy & Quality Assurance: Oversee and edit internal news articles, scripts, and other materials in AP style. Provide copy editing support for internal and external documents.
• Environmental Scanning: Conduct internal and external scans to identify communication gaps and implement action plans for improvement.

Ready to lead, inspire, and connect? Join our team where your communication expertise drives culture and clarity across the organization. Apply today and help shape how we communicate, collaborate and grow.

GENERAL SUMMARY

In collaboration with the Public Affairs manager, communicate with, and provide advice and counsel to all levels of management. Support the PA manager with strategic planning and day to day direction and operations of the department, to include personnel management, budget management, programs and policies and procedures. Directly oversee two or more of the following PA programmatic/functional areas: employee communication; governing board management; member relations; public and community relations; legislative affairs; advertising and educational outreach; and creative services.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Support the PA manager with strategic planning and help foster a dynamic team environment with engaged day to day direction and operations of the department, to include personnel management, budget management, programs and policies and procedures. Apply expertise to support the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of public affairs campaigns and programs across the full spectrum of communication disciplines. Provide advice and counsel to all levels of management.

Provide leadership, support, clear direction and expectations to direct reports. Meet with team members to identify and resolve work and personnel problems; assign work activities; monitor work progress; provide guidance for improvement; and facilitate skill development and cross-training. Prepare reports on team activity and performance for the PA manager. Establish development plans to promote continual professional growth and provide recognition for high levels of performance. Ensure responsive, quality customer service and a respectful, open and honest communication environment. Conduct performance appraisals and ensure adherence to EN core values. Input to fiscal year budget in coordination with the manager, and maintain diligent cost controls.

Perform internal and external scans for areas of responsibility to identify gaps to excellence, and develop and implement action plans to close the gaps. Build relationships with customers and leaders and provide expertise in support of agency excellence.

Interface and build relations with local, regional and national industry/policy/community influencers and stakeholders to advance the agency’s strategies, enhance public awareness and improve agency reputation.

Contribute ideas for internal and external communications and support development. Write print news articles and broadcast scripts and copy edit proficiently in journalistic Associated Press style.

Research and develop presentations (including articles, speeches, briefing papers, white papers, talking points and associated audio-visual aids) for PA manager and agency leaders.

Must participate on the Emergency Response team (ERO) when designated.

Must support the biennial refueling outage.

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Requires a bachelor’s degree in communication, business administration or a related field from an accredited college or university with 6 years of public affairs experience. Requires 3 years of internal and/or external communications (may be concurrent with public affairs-related experience); OR high school diploma/GED with 10 years of public affairs-related experience. Requires 3 years of internal and/or external communications (may be concurrent with public affairs-related experience).

Pay Range

Midpoint:

Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience and qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances.

Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications.

Incentive Compensation

This role may be eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan. Incentives are earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.

Benefits

Energy Northwest (EN) offers a highly competitive and substantial benefits package which allows qualifying employees (and their families) to enroll in medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring, and identity theft insurance. EN offers three retirement programs to qualifying employees including a matching 401(k) deferred compensation plan, the Washington State Pension Plan (PERS), and a 457(b) savings plan. Qualifying employees will also accrue 160 hours of personal time per year and nine paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate due to race, color, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability.

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